DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Duval County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 778,879 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 211,236 | 100.0 | Native | 733,228 | 94.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 16,621 | 7.9 | Born in United States | 718,803 | 92.3 | |
| Kindergarten | 12,144 | 5.7 | State of residence | 377,674 | 48.5 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 95,528 | 45.2 | Different state | 341,129 | 43.8 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 43,592 | 20.6 | Born outside United States | 14,425 | 1.9 | |
| College or graduate school | 43,351 | 20.5 | Foreign born | 45,651 | 5.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 19,605 | 2.5 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 21,813 | 2.8 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 499,602 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 23,838 | 3.1 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 21,669 | 4.3 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 64,667 | 12.9 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 145,209 | 29.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 45,651 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 121,027 | 24.2 | Europe | 11,568 | 25.3 | |
| Associate degree | 37,557 | 7.5 | Asia | 18,024 | 39.5 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 75,029 | 15.0 | Africa | 1,780 | 3.9 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 34,444 | 6.9 | Oceania | 164 | 0.4 | |
| Latin America | 12,278 | 26.9 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 82.7 | (X) | Northern America | 1,837 | 4.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 21.9 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 723,198 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 606,727 | 100.0 | English only | 654,825 | 90.5 | |
| Never married | 160,839 | 26.5 | Language other than English | 68,373 | 9.5 | |
| Now married, except separated | 308,655 | 50.9 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 24,112 | 3.3 | |
| Separated | 17,489 | 2.9 | Spanish | 29,719 | 4.1 | |
| Widowed | 38,641 | 6.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 9,516 | 1.3 | |
| Female | 31,728 | 5.2 | Other Indo-European languages | 19,071 | 2.6 | |
| Divorced | 81,103 | 13.4 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,789 | 0.9 | |
| Female | 46,754 | 7.7 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 14,937 | 2.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 6,394 | 0.9 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 778,879 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 18,254 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 734,688 | 94.3 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 8,960 | 49.1 | Arab | 6,157 | 0.8 | |
| Czech¹ | 2,228 | 0.3 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 1,468 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 558,817 | 100.0 | Dutch | 8,499 | 1.1 | |
| Civilian veterans | 99,118 | 17.7 | English | 69,077 | 8.9 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 17,864 | 2.3 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 4,893 | 0.6 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 76,595 | 9.8 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 178,665 | 100.0 | Greek | 2,728 | 0.4 | |
| With a disability | 15,793 | 8.8 | Hungarian | 2,719 | 0.3 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 444,418 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 72,658 | 9.3 | |
| With a disability | 97,804 | 22.0 | Italian | 28,284 | 3.6 | |
| Percent employed | 61.4 | (X) | Lithuanian | 1,166 | 0.1 | |
| No disability | 346,614 | 78.0 | Norwegian | 5,252 | 0.7 | |
| Percent employed | 78.1 | (X) | Polish | 11,733 | 1.5 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 77,827 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 1,369 | 0.2 | |
| With a disability | 35,693 | 45.9 | Russian | 4,095 | 0.5 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 14,219 | 1.8 | ||||
| Scottish | 15,202 | 2.0 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 642 | 0.1 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 723,198 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 8,216 | 1.1 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 353,965 | 48.9 | Swedish | 5,052 | 0.6 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 350,774 | 48.5 | Swiss | 1,188 | 0.2 | |
| Same county | 215,077 | 29.7 | Ukrainian | 1,431 | 0.2 | |
| Different county | 135,697 | 18.8 | United States or American | 71,808 | 9.2 | |
| Same state | 47,769 | 6.6 | Welsh | 4,079 | 0.5 | |
| Different state | 87,928 | 12.2 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 5,002 | 0.6 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 18,459 | 2.6 | Other ancestries | 291,064 | 37.4 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
- Page last reviewed December 31, 2008
- Page last updated December 31, 2008
- Content source: CDC Emergency Risk Communication Branch (ERCB), Division of Emergency Operations (DEO), Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response (OPHPR)
